กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอาทิตย์ที่ 10 กรกฎาคม ค.ศ. 1994

From Isolated Land, News Is Sparse

Date: 11 July 1994

Kim Il Sung's death was the most important event on the Korean peninsula in decades, but because North Korea routinely refuse visas to journalists, they must follow the events from countries where broadcasts from North Korea can be monitored. North Korea is one of the most secretive countries. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a small number of journalists from other Communist countries visited Pyongyang, the capital. But Western journalists have generally had access only on special occasions.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Television; Networks' Simpson Vigil: A Low-Cost Reply to CNN

Date: 11 July 1994

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

The three big broadcast networks had few second thoughts last week about clearing out almost all of their daytime schedules to cover the preliminary hearing in the O. J. Simpson murder case. Their decisions were relatively easy for two main reasons: the courtroom coverage wasn't costing them all that much, and there was just too much interest in the story to allow viewers to slip away somewhere else, like CNN.

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ALSO INSIDE

Date: 10 July 1994

MAKING IT WORK 3 Wally Blohm and a handful of fellow apiarists are the city's bee team. Their mission: to tame the swarming masses. NEW YORKERS & CO. 4 In the stands at Yankee Stadium, Raymond Accetta is "pretty much all hot dogs." He aspires, however, to beer.

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The World; A Spin Doctor Goes Abroad

Date: 10 July 1994

By Douglas Jehl

Douglas Jehl

DAVID R. GERGEN, who helped make Ronald Reagan's image what it was and then was recruited to do the same for Bill Clinton, has found it hard to shake his own public image, as the master of spin. Even under his new title of Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State, his debut was most remarked upon here last week for the intensity of the Administration's efforts to manipulate public perception. To be sure, Mr. Gergen stayed behind the scenes during the President's European trip. But no one traveling with them could help but notice how suddenly accessible often-remote Administration officials had become. In briefing rooms, hotel lobbies, even on the charter aircraft carrying the White House press, they descended so relentlessly that whispering began about just what was going on. When even the State Department's director of policy planning, James Steinberg, showed up on the press plane and volunteered a mid-air pre-briefing on the summit meeting for the seven biggest industrialized democracies, the explanation that jumped to everyone's lips was that a lot was being done to distract attention from Haiti, and that it must be Mr. Gergen's doing.

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Primal Curiosity

Date: 10 July 1994

"With everything else that's going on in the world," as one New Yorker put it recently, "wouldn't you think people would have more to do than pay all this attention to the O. J. Simpson case?" Of course, they have more to do. They had more to do 40 years ago when the wife of one Dr. Sam Sheppard was bludgeoned (he claimed) by "a bushy-haired stranger." But they read the miles of newsprint that accompanied that crime as avidly as America is now reading the miles of newsprint accompanying two deaths in California.

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Teen-Agers, in a Poll, Report Worry and Distrust of Adults

Date: 10 July 1994

By Susan Chira

Susan Chira

A nationwide poll of teen-agers suggests that many lead lives shadowed by adult concerns like violence, drinking and getting a good job, but these are worries that many say they cannot share with adults. Many appear to live in virtually separate worlds from adults. Four in 10 say their parents sometimes or often do not make time to help them, and many say the people they both trust and fear the most are other teen-agers.

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Poll of Teen-Agers: Battle of the Sexes On Roles in Family

Date: 11 July 1994

By Tamar Lewin

Tamar Lewin

A nationwide poll of teen-agers found that boys are substantially more traditional than girls in their expectations of the family life they will have as adults. The girls surveyed were more likely than the boys to say that they could have a happy life even if they did not marry and that they would consider becoming a single parent. And 86 percent of the girls said they expected to work outside the home while married, while only 7 percent said they did not.

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Spanish Aid To Car Maker

Date: 11 July 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Spanish Government has devised a 30-billion-peseta bailout ($230 million) of SEAT, a Spanish car maker that is a subsidiary of Volkswagen A.G. The agreement, which will insure the survival of the financially troubled auto maker, was presented on Friday to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 10 July 1994

International 3-13 CONCERN OVER KOREA TRANSITION The death of North Korea's leader cast a pall of uncertainty over the little-known country, but initial signs were that the transition of power there would be orderly. 1

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Wall Street; For Spectrum, Even So-So News Is Good News

Date: 10 July 1994

By Susan Antilla

Susan Antilla

WITH some companies, the ongoing news is so bad that even so-so announcements can spark a rally. Shares of Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. have risen 31 percent since June 30, a period in which the company announced an $8.1 million loss, a round of job cuts and the severing of its relationship with its former president, whose business practices have come under question. On Thursday, along with news that it would terminate the employment contract of Peter T. Caserta, the former president, Spectrum said that four new outside directors had been elected. By Friday, Spectrum shares closed at $2.125.

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